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There’s a new Google Analytics out, and if you spend your days thinking about the customer lifecycle, you’re gonna love it… Wendy’s clever Twitter campaign tied retweets to discounts… You can now use music in your podcasts if you’re hosted on Anchor — and you’re willing to lose 93% of your audience… and why the best advice you’ll receive this year on content marketing will come from a sex-toy blog...

YouTube is quietly asking top creators to help it build a product catalog for future direct sales… some good news about your job prospects as a digital marketer… why you should consider deleting any disapproved ad campaigns from your Facebook ads manager… new brand options for Amazon ads… and more behind the scenes on the monetization of this podcast: this time — the first programmatic campaign is...

Microsoft plans to point people AWAY from your product pages. Or maybe route people TO them. It all depends on your product’s pricing. Plus, Instagram finally adds the one thing missing the most from Reels… Yelp plans to call out racist businesses… and your Google My Profile may be giving wrong information to customers about how busy you are. Join our Slack community! TodayInDigital.com/slack Not...

Is Twitter getting rid of retweets?… Facebook says about the removal of the 28-day attribution window: “Naw, bro, we were just kidding!”... Microsoft’s new platform will let you manage pretty much everything — including your brand’s Facebook and Google campaigns… and vertical Stories are heading to a most unlikely home. Join our Slack community! TodayInDigital.com/slack Not subscribed yet? Subscri...

Hootsuite fires an employee who spoke out about its contract with a controversial U.S. government agency, big news for big brands who use big data, why is Canada’s public broadcaster getting out of the podcast business, Google wants you to tell better stories, and just when you thought SEPTEMBER was bad for Facebook ad performance... Join our Slack community! TodayInDigital.com/slack Not subscribe...

Google introduces call display for your Google My Business calls… a U.S. Supreme Court case could dramatically shift the ownership structures of TV stations… One big platform throws its weight behind Web Stories… and the TikTok duet that got duetted and duetted and may have become one of the single most impressive pieces of amateur musical theatre in history. Join our Slack community! TodayInDigit...

Is that cookie disclosure banner on your web site pulling you down in Google rankings? Instagram gets closer to e-commerce integration in its TikTok clone… The largest growing demographic of podcast listeners are teenagers… and how a single Excel spreadsheet is all that anybody is talking about in the U.K. today. Brought to you today by the Keep Optimising podcast: KeepOptimising.com Not subscribe...

One big advertiser is driving up the prices of ads on Facebook. And I promise — you will not guess which company that is. Also, Google adds some nice new tools to its online spreadsheet, Twitter apologizes for the way it’s been cropping your images, and changes to Facebook Groups means you may have a very powerful new placement at your disposal. Brought to you today by the Keep Optimising podcast:...

YouTube’s new AI bots may break your brand’s web site… Are you optimizing for PAA SEO? The surprising places social media influencers are showing up… and why Gordon Ramsay is absolutely killing it on the most unlikely of social networks. Brought to you today by the Keep Optimising podcast: KeepOptimising.com Not subscribed yet? Get direct subscribe links at TodayInDigital.com   HELP SPREAD THE WOR...

Has your digital agency run afoul of a new Trump administration order? How a lawsuit over a video game might affect your social media strategy. Google will give you a full user experience audit — of your competitors… and how good will this new web analytics tool be when it promises it won’t track your web site visitors. Brought to you today by the Keep Optimising podcast: KeepOptimising.com Not su...

Microsoft’s ads platform will keep your ads off from bad web sites… More details on the looming elimination of Facebook’s 28-day attribution windows… Twitter’s new accessibility project will add one more task to your digital marketing To Do list… and why there is a full two-second gap of dead-air in today’s episode. Not subscribed yet? Get direct subscribe links at TodayInDigital.com   HELP SPREAD...

Facebook’s latest change could mean you won’t be able to see conversion data on your campaigns… Apple’s latest acquisition is all about those sweet sweet podcast advertising dollars… Platforms with inflammatory content are hurting the performance of your ad campaigns… and hackers have found a way in to the single most important weapon in a digital marketer’s arsenal. Not subscribed yet? Get direct...

They tried to compete with Buzzfeed, and they lost… Facebook adds content plugins to Ads Manager… the custom audience you’re NOT using but probably should try… Google adds more pandemic-friendly labels for your product ads… and is the Ring company trying to pull one over on all of us? Not subscribed yet? Get direct subscribe links at TodayInDigital.com HELP SPREAD THE WORD: • Tweet It: bit.ly/twee...

In the alternate universe we’re all living in now, one marketer has found that using an insane amount of text in Facebook ads actually drives better results now… Hootsuite is having a very bad day… Reddit adds some nice protections for brands that are a little risk-sensitive… Please welcome the newest member of the vertical Stories club… and LinkedIn adds some surprisingly useful upgrades. Not sub...

The places you’re buying ads are NOT the places where consumers want you to be... Google confirms that reviews mean everything to local SEO… Amazon puts another restriction on advertising on its platform — and this one might get them into trouble with the regulators… and the single tweet that might become known as the cheapest, simplest, and most effective political ad in the history of the world....

Three small announcements you WANTED to hear from Facebook, and one big one you didn’t... TikTok and Oracle give a masterclass in how to screw up a simple p.r. Announcement… and Mailchimp turns to artificial intelligence to power the next generation of its platform. Not subscribed yet? Get direct subscribe links at TodayInDigital.com HELP SPREAD THE WORD: • Tweet It: bit.ly/tweet-tidm to preview a...

Does hosting your brand’s web site on a shared server negatively affect your Google position? Facebook adds new intellectual property protection for brands…. Amazon adds a whole new placement — and it’s a big one… And you blew it. Your brand could have owned today — every year, you could have owned this day. But you don’t. Because you blew it. Not subscribed yet? Get direct subscribe links at Toda...

34 days and counting before millions of web pages are due to break — all because of a change being made by Facebook… Google will now let publishers place first-party cookies on their brand’s site… Neilson unveils a massive database of marketing benchmarks to help you understand how well YOUR digital campaigns are doing…. And the TikTok drama train continues today. Not subscribed yet? Get direct su...

We’re starting to understand just how many keywords are being dropped from Google Ads reports… Facebook launches a whole new platform for managing your business — I know, I know… YouTube makes one of the most significant upgrades to its targeting in its history… and an update from the digital marketer in our Slack community who’s been locked out of her Facebook account for weeks now. Not subscribe...

A new feature on Facebook could get more brands into doing Live broadcasts… both Amazon and Apple announce BIG bets they’ve placed on podcasting… and does having the keywords you want to rank for in your domain name help or hurt your listing. What Google says is different than what most people believe. MY FUNDRAISER FOR ADDICTIONS TREATMENT: http://bit.ly/todrun Not subscribed yet? Get direct subs...

The one marketing tactic that consumers say will bring them BACK to your bricks-and-mortar store… Instagram is thinking about letting links in captions be tappable — for a price… Facebook’s quick new ad format has one potentially big tradeoff… and I have the proof, friends, that humanity is going to hell. JOIN OUR SLACK COMMUNITY! • Click: TodayInDigital.com/slack SPREAD THE WORD: • Tweet It: bit....

Did TikTok just pull the greatest bait and switch in business history? YouTube has an exciting new metric (god, what has my life become). And Facebook’s auto-bans are becoming so frequent that hackers are now copying them. JOIN OUR SLACK COMMUNITY! • Click: TodayInDigital.com/slack SPREAD THE WORD: • Tweet It: bit.ly/tweet-tidm to preview a tweet you can publish • Review Us: RateThisPodcast.com/to...

Podcasts borrow inspiration from programmatic ad technology... Yes, that was a scary email you got from YouTube. No, you don’t have to worry about it. How to reposition your brand’s content to be more friendly to voice assistants… and the final word from Google: Does having lots of words on all your brand’s web pages help or hurt your company’s search engine ranking? JOIN OUR SLACK COMMUNITY! • Cl...

And you thought the GDPR was bad. Wait until you hear what Europe just told Facebook to do. The most downloaded social media app last month was the most beleaguered. Adding the latest label to your brand’s Google listing may be more about politics than promotion. And the data’s in — if you want your Brand Awareness campaign to work, show your ads to more young people. JOIN OUR SLACK COMMUNITY! • C...

Spotify is burning up the podcast charts, in all the wrong ways… Facebook’s putting ads on sites that never asked for ads… How Pinterest’s algorithm changes could affect your brand’s content strategy… and the World Health Organization paying an influencer to talk up contact tracing… an influencer that is completely computer-generated. JOIN OUR SLACK COMMUNITY! • Click: TodayInDigital.com/slack SPR...